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Thirty-Seventh Annual Meeting (2020)

NASCO’s Thirty-Seventh Annual Meeting (2020) was conducted by video conference. A small meeting of the Council is planned in the autumn. The Minute of the Meeting of the Council, Commissions and...
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ICES advice to NASCO on North Atlantic salmon out

ICES provides advice to NASCO on wild North Atlantic salmon, annually under the NASCO-ICES Memorandum of Understanding. The advice for 2020 is now available on the ICES website: North America...
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IYS Symposium Report Published Online

NASCO’s focal event of the International Year of the Salmon in 2019 in the North Atlantic was its Symposium ‘Managing the Atlantic Salmon in a Rapidly Changing Environment – Management...
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Annual Progress Reports not reviewed in 2020

Due to restrictions in place due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Annual Progress Reports (APRs) submitted in 2020 will not be reviewed. However, as required by the NASCO Convention, the statistics reported...
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Annual Meeting CANCELLED

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the face-to-face NASCO Annual Meeting in Edinburgh in June is cancelled. Instead, NASCO’s business for 2020 will be conducted by correspondence, video conference and a...
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Covid-19 Update

Due to the new Government restrictions the NASCO Secretariat will be closed until at least 14 April when the Government are to review the situation. Further updates will be provided...
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Review of SALSEA-Track Programme and Inventory

The International Atlantic Salmon Research Board agreed that the Inventory of Research Relating to Salmon Mortality in the Sea and the SALSEA-Track Programme should be reviewed (ICR(19)09). A Working Group...
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NASCO 2020 Annual Meeting Papers

The Provisional Agenda for the Thirty-Seventh Annual Meeting of the Council (English and French) and the Draft Schedule of Meetings are now available and can be found here. The Provisional...
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ICES dialogue Meeting with Advice Requesters

This week Wendy attended the ICES annual dialogue meeting with advice requesters, where participants were introduced to the new Advisory Plan. Assuring quality, incorporating innovation & evolving advice were named...
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